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(23,998 posts)Love that guy!
GitRDun
(1,846 posts)I'm with him!
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)the Dream Presidential Campaign. Let loose, it would be wonderful. It will never happen, of course. "Pretty to think so".
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pa28
(6,145 posts)I don't think Republicans understand this. For the past four years they have portrayed the deficit as an existential crisis threatening the very fabric of the republic and their children's future . . . and on and on . . .
If we all pay a little more in tax on January 1st and suck up a little of that "shared sacrifice" they are so fond of talking about we balance the budget right now instead of the two or three decades prescribed by the Ryan plan.
I'm totally fine with going off the the cliff.
DesMoinesDem
(1,569 posts)pa28
(6,145 posts)This is the deficit scenario under the "fiscal cliff".
Deficits and Debt: Budget deficits are projected to continue to shrink for several yearsto 2.4 percent of GDP in 2014 and 0.4 percent by 2018before rising again to 0.9 percent by 2019.
http://www.cbo.gov/publication/43539
DesMoinesDem
(1,569 posts)which is why I said it doesn't balance the budget at all. Not one year is the budget balanced, which that graph clearly shows.
pa28
(6,145 posts)You may go about your regularly scheduled trolling.
DesMoinesDem
(1,569 posts)You may go about your regularly scheduled lying, and I'll be right behind you to call you out.
Volaris
(10,260 posts)Let's put him back in charge of the DNC, at the very least. I hope he decides to run for President again. If anyone would have the balls to put Liz Warren on a ticket "ahead of schedule" it would be him, and I would back that decision wholeheartedly, win OR lose.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)I would like to see Dean as president...I think he would be a Harry Truman like president...and we could use that now.
veganlush
(2,049 posts)Of course we should do it! We should be calling our reps. And screaming it from the rooftops! Its perfect and we dont need ANY cooperation from the repugnants. Absolutely a no-brainer but i doubt it will happen.
msongs
(67,193 posts)grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)ReRe
(10,597 posts)... IMHO, one thing the Repubs did teach us was that they can't be trusted. If we agree to let the New Year come without twilighting those Bush tax breaks, they will stab us all in the back. Democrats have the ball & the momentum now and we need to carry through and do what needs to be done. The Bush tax breaks weren't supposed to last FOREVER. "Job-makers" my you-know-what. Obama has nothing to loose now, so we need to do the right thing. He told the People he would when campaigning. Remember guys... he has to sign whatever they come up with. He holds the pen.
goclark
(30,404 posts)He explained it clearly...he should be doiñg
TV interviews all day and all night
patrice
(47,992 posts)Reich is saying stop making such a big deal out of the deficit, don't ignore it entirely, but it isn't the huge threat some people are pretending it is. (We owe most of that deficit to ourselves, anyway, don't we?). Reich says concentrate on government spending that creates jobs (which wouldn't be the military obviously).
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Let the cliff come!
LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)Right on point as usual!
So glad that I have a picture with Gov. Dean taken at Netroots Nation this year!
rks306
(116 posts)All the GOP are upset about the debt. Cuts spending and returns to Clinton rates. Maybe for two years they could pass a middle and a low end tax cut. Then taxes must return to original rates. Maybe even higher on the upper income levels.
MichaelSoE
(1,576 posts)ejbr
(5,852 posts)drynberg
(1,648 posts)Seriously, Howard is spot on. Time to bite the friggin' bullet and do the correct (not RightWing) thing.
Rose Siding
(32,623 posts)Smart is sexy duh
fasttense
(17,301 posts)The Darth Vader of the RepubliCON party knew it.
Even so, the fiscal cliff is no cliff. It's a small hill. Let it happen.
Dustlawyer
(10,493 posts)For at least 25 years while the rich have continuously done extremely well. My balance approach would be to cut the military industrial complex by 50%, increase taxes on the wealthy and cut loopholes, institute a trade tax on Wall Street, negotiate RX drug prices down for Medicaid/Medicare and put the savings in SS. I would also withhold for SS starting again at $250,000 on up. Too bad reality enters the picture and we cannot come close to doing these things due to rampant corruption of our politicians and our political process.
DinahMoeHum
(21,737 posts)AldoLeopold
(617 posts)Cut defense! Cut defense! It is so refreshing to hear someone saying this. I admire him so much. This is the only viable solution.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)Just think if Dean were the most influential Democrat, and Jon Huntsman the most influential Republican. Would things be too sane or what?
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)Faryn Balyncd
(5,125 posts)patrice
(47,992 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,888 posts)This guy is SO good - we need more Dean!!!!
MaynardGeeKrebs
(31 posts)I have the feeling that there's alot more politicians out there who "get it" but won't speak out.
It's not that hard to explain. Bernie Sanders explains it in terms even a tea bagger can understand.
rock
(13,218 posts)I figure he's someone I can trust.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)prediction: The president will give in to Boner's threats instead of heeding the party faithful
Faryn Balyncd
(5,125 posts)MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)... I can once again get my Deaniac "ON"
Crowman1979
(3,844 posts)...is actually committing economic extortion up the 99%. In actuality, it won't really affect them. The 1% just want to scare people into giving them more money.
Overseas
(12,121 posts)bill and then a Tiny Transaction Tax on Wall Street trades.
Too Big To Fail means Too Big Not To Contribute.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)hold the House?
savebigbird
(417 posts)Last edited Thu Nov 22, 2012, 06:23 PM - Edit history (1)
"You just don't see enough of Howard Dean these days." I think Dean should have gotten together with Biden when he was making his campaigning rounds. That would have been a hoot.